Talk:Anthony Gregorc

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I fail to see notability of this individual ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 57.67.161.196 (talk) 12:03, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

The claim "His learning styles ideas are based on brain hemispherical research" is sourced, but it's sourced to Susan Santo at U. South Dakota, not to Gregorc Associates, and I'm not sure she's right about that. No such claim is on the gregorc.com website (google hemisphere site:gregorc.com) and though it has been 5 years since I borrowed and returned a copy of the Development, Testing and Administration Manual, I sure don't *remember* such a claim being in it.

The following bit needed citation: The four types identified are: examples you can touch. through the knowledge in a trial and error manner to visual material.
 * Concrete Sequential learners want step by step instructions using real
 * Concrete Random Learners want real examples, but want to browse
 * Abstract Sequential want clear visual material that is well organised
 * Abstract Random however are happy to find a trial and error approach

The names of the four types are no problem (easily found on the official gregorc.com site) but any prose descriptions of them are tricky. The most relevant prose descriptions are the ones under copyright in the Gregorc for-fee materials. Even one-liners are more than can be found free on gregorc.com. Many other sites that talk about the GSD have their own descriptions, which may be paraphrases of Gregorc or of whatever understanding their respective authors took away from a Gregorc presentation; there's a huge variation in what people think these styles mean. Using somebody's paraphrase is probably ok as long as whose paraphrase is cited, but that wasn't the case for the descriptions above and I couldn't add a citation because I didn't know where they came from.

The next bit appears to need a dose of WP:CITE#SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT: One of the benefits of this approach is to identify how different students learn. For instance, some researchers have concluded that computer-mediated learning may be difficult for some students.

The Ross and Schulz reference appears copied directly from the Susan Santo web page. The whole bit seems a little like filler (a hoped for benefit of any learning style research is to identify how different students learn, yes), so I nipped it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.210.4.206 (talk) 14:23, 17 February 2009 (UTC)

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The claim that "his learning styles ideas are based on brain hemispherical research" was questioned in this space one year ago, removed, and restored without addressing the question. The only source given for the claim was Dr. Santo at USD, no such claim is found in materials on gregorc.com, and when I contacted Dr. Santo to ask her source for the claim, we were unable to confirm it. She was considering removing the statement in question from her page, or removing the page entirely, and as the link is now dead it appears she has done so. Unless someone is able to provide another current source for the claim about hemisphere research, could the time at last be ripe to be safely rid of it? 128.210.3.54 (talk) 23:13, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Forgot to add: I did again borrow a physical copy of the Development, Technical, and Administration Manual, which is Gregorc's own publication on the development and history of his instrument, and confirmed that it contains no such claim.128.210.3.54 (talk) 23:16, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

Absent any response here, the claim has been removed again. Please don't reinstate it unless you can find a suitable citation supporting it. (It would not be suitable to simply re-cite Dr. Santo's page via the Wayback Machine, knowing as discussed above that the link is dead for a reason.)128.210.3.54 (talk) 19:43, 16 February 2011 (UTC)